PPT97: How to Hide Slide Show Annotation and Hidden Slide Buttons (189960)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q189960

SUMMARY

This article describes how to turn off on-screen annotation and remove the Annotation and Hidden Slide buttons that appear during a slide show.

MORE INFORMATION

To turn off on-screen annotation and remove the Annotation and Hidden Slide buttons that appear during a slide show, follow these steps:
  1. Begin running the slide show.
  2. Immediately after the first slide appears, press CTL+L or click the right mouse button once to bring up the slide show options menu, click Pointer Options, and click Hide Always.
This disables on-screen annotation for the slide show.

To turn off the annotation icon in PowerPoint Viewer, when using the viewer in a stand-alone installation, (that is, PowerPoint Viewer has been installed, but not PowerPoint itself), you must create a Powerpnt.ini file, and enter the following lines:

[Microsoft PowerPoint]
SlideShowToolBar=0

This disables the annotation icon during a presentation run from PowerPoint Viewer.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/9/2000
Keywords:kbhowto kbusage KB189960
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